Purpose Letters of recommendations (LORs) are key components of academic medicine
applications. Given that bias against students and trainees underrepresented in medicine …

Letters of recommendation are ubiquitous in the research enterprise. Requesting, writing,
and reviewing letters of recommendation are all fraught with bias, especially for individuals …

As more medical students are applying to residency and fellowship programs, the burden of
reviewing applications and discriminating among individuals is increasing. In addition …

Purpose Competency-based medical education (CBME) relies on frequent workplace-based
assessments of trainees, providing opportunities for conscious and implicit biases to reflect …

Academic medicine has recognized the need to diversify the physician workforce for more
than 50 years, and yet Black, Indigenous, and Hispanic physicians remain URiM …

ABSTRACT Study Objective To examine whether there are gender differences in letters of
recommendation (LORs) written for residents applying to gynecology surgical fellowships …

BACKGROUND Racial and ethnically minoritized individuals and women are
underrepresented in leadership roles in academic medicine. Little is known about whether …

Alunas negras do curso de Medicina são minoria e enfrentam diversos obstáculos durante a
formação por serem mulheres negras. Objetivou-se sintetizar o conhecimento produzido em …

OBJECTIVE Various surgical specialties have reported gender bias in letters of
recommendation (LOR). We aimed to determine if linguistic differences exist in LOR for …

Objective To describe differences in agentic (achievement) and communal (relationship)
terms in letters of recommendation (LORs) for pediatric residency candidates by applicant …